he revised English edition of this book tlie T original Swcdisli cdition. without tlie subtitle. is froni 1997 should be considered :is i111 important contribution to sociology and social science in general to tlie extent tliat it is a clear and wcll-structured introduction to critical i-disrri, one of the most rccent and vigorous theoretical streams in the field of thc social scicnces. if we take into coiisidcration tlic influential work of hlargaret t\\rclier (1995: Realist Socinl Tlicory: Tlic I\\loriJlio!gciicti(’

Explaining Society, Critical Realism in the Social Sciences:

Part 1 The glimmerings 1718-1826: silhouette of a renaissance reaction against innovation the new social order and its fall. Part 2 The breakthrough 1826-1878: foundations of a secular state Tanzimat the economic and political impact of the West the secularism of the Tanzimat the constitutional movement constitution of 1876. Part 3 The reaction 1878-1908: constitutional absolutism the reactions against the reaction. Part 4 Search for a fulcrum 1908-19: the Mesrutiyet three proposed roads to reconstruction reforming the institutions the secularism of the Mesrutiyet. Part 5 The struggle for establishment of a secular nation-state 1919-39: the birth of a nation under fire the Kemalist reforms the secularism of the Kemalist regime.

The Development of Secularism in Turkey

Bespreking van: K. Stenner,The Authoritarian Dynamic Cambridge:Cambridge University Press ,2005 0-521-53478-x

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.ap.5500212.pdf

The Authoritarian Dynamic

Well-being has recently risen rapidly up the political agenda in Britain and beyond, signalled most clearly by Prime Minister Cameron's announcement in 2010 that well-being measures developed by the Office for National Statistics would be used to guide public policies. Here we seek to explain why well-being has risen up the British political agenda, drawing on Kingdon's multiple streams approach. While this approach has considerable merit, it does not acknowledge the complexity of multi-level governance in which policy, politics and problem streams can operate at different territorial levels. As such, we argue that the match between policy, politics and problem streams has to be not only temporal, but also spatial. The consequence is that, while in relation to measurement a paradigm shift may be taking place, in terms of decisive action there is some way to go before well-being can be described as ‘an idea whose time has come’.

An Idea Whose Time has Come? Explaining the Rise of Well-Being in British Politics

Measuring quality of life has recently risen rapidly up the political agenda in a range of political arenas. In the EU context this is indicated most clearly by a Commission communication to the Council and European Parliament in 2009, ‘GDP and Beyond’, which sets out a roadmap with five key actions to improve the indicators for measuring progress. This initiative, along with similar developments both nationally and internationally, signals discontent with the dominance of gross domestic product growth as the dominant measure of societal progress and suggest that in some respects at least, concern with measuring quality of life is an idea whose time has come. This article seeks to explain how and why this issue has risen up the EU's political agenda through this initiative, drawing on Kingdon's (2011) multiple streams approach to agenda-setting and related contributions.

Measuring quality of life for public policy: an idea whose time has come? Agenda-setting dynamics in the European Union

Addressing climate change requires international effort from both governments and the public. Climate change concern is a crucial variable influencing public support for measures to address climate...

Public attitudes towards climate change: A cross-country analysis:

Establishing causality in Europeanization research has been at the centre of methodological issues surrounding Europeanization literature (Exadaktylos and Radaelli, Chapter 2 in this volume). However, methodology is organically intertwined with the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the researcher (Hay, 2007: 117–118). Therefore, this chapter takes a deeper approach to the issue of establishing causality by acknowledging the meta-theoretical underpinnings of methodology by outlining a critical realist approach.

Europeanization: A Critical Realist Perspective

Studies on securitization dynamics in a growing number of sectors have been conducted, including securitization of climate change. However, a relatively understudied agent of securitization is medi...

Alternative Media and the Securitization of Climate Change in Turkey

Europeanization of foreign policy is often studied from the perspective of the impact of European Union (EU) membership on national foreign policies. What go largely unnoticed are the numerous usages of the EU in presenting, justifying and implementing foreign policy at home and abroad. This paper addresses this lacuna in the literature by exploring how Turkish foreign policy actors have construed and used the EU to justify and explain Turkey's foreign policy towards the Middle East in the domestic and the Middle Eastern context. We draw upon a sociological approach to Europeanization and argue that the usages of the EU in the construction of Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle East vary according to the context.

Usages of Europe in Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East

Sustainable development recently topped the universal agenda again when the United Nations adopted its Sustainable Development Goals on 25 September 2015. Yet, since the 1990s, the concept has prom...

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Public attitudes towards climate change: A cross-country analysis:

Europeanization: A Critical Realist Perspective

Alternative Media and the Securitization of Climate Change in Turkey

Usages of Europe in Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East

Contending narratives on the sustainability of nuclear energy in Turkey